More on the Great Smoky Mountains Near The Blue Ridge Parkway and Who can fall down the hardest...

So far I have two paintings from The Great Smoky mountains of North Carolina.

They
are a subrange of the Appalachian Mountains, and form part of the Blue
Ridge Physiographic Province which is why I entitled the above painting,
The Very Blue Ridge even though it is a range in the Smokies.

Both of
them have been sold, but, as always, large and small prints on paper or
canvas are available on my website.

North Carolina Myths and Legends

There are a lot of myths and legends about North Carolina mountains.

Here is one I really like.

Brown Mountain is a low ridge in Burke County that is a showcase for one of the last, great unexplained phenomena in the world.

During
the night, usually in autumn, mysterious glowing orbs can be seen to
rise up off the mountain, hover and wobble about fifteen feet up in the
air, and then disappear.

There's no denying that the lights are
real. They have been observed by countless witnesses and photographed on
many occasions. But what they are is still unknown.

Explanations have varied over the years.

The
Cherokee were aware of the lights, and claimed that the lights were the
souls of Cherokee women searching for their men who had died in a great
battle between the Cherokee and the Catawba that took place on Brown
Mountain.

Other legends say that the lights are the the ghostly
echoes of lights that appeared during a search for a murdered woman in
the 19th century.

I got this legend from Brown Mountain Lights on the online publication, North Carolina Ghost Stories and Legends

Kudos
to Clyde for getting five more poems published yesterday in Mystic
Nebula and Rose Red.

Mystic Nebula is a science fiction poetry magazine
and Rose Red is a fantasy poetry magazine. He really is on a roll
lately!

I
love to skate. I have been skating for most of my life but a number of
years ago I decided I should quit because I feared getting a bad
injury. I took up Line Dancing and loved it but missed skating.

This
year I decided to go back and just skate when there aren't a lot of
people at the rink and wear pads. I read on the Internet that skating
is actually one of the lower risk sports and would be even lower if
people would wear pads.

I still get nervous due to skaters that can't skate very well and reckless skaters.

The
other day a bunch of teen-age boys were skating at break neck speed and
playing tag. I told my husband it would be great if rinks had adult
skates like pools so I could skate in peace.

His
reply was they should have a session for all the macho skaters that
want to see who can fall the hardest without mangling himself. The
words he used were more colorful but I strongly believe in G-rated
posts!

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In my artwork, I seek to celebrate life – the simple and spectacular images all around us. Art patrons admire my intense use of color and texture to enhance daily life and communicate my emotional reaction to beauty. My style is unique to me but has strong impressionistic and expressionistic components. I primarily create large low-level impasto oil paintings but I also work in pastels. I am fascinated by the interaction of light and color in this beautiful mountain region. My paintings, prints, and drawings have been seen in over seventy national, international, and local shows. I have won numerous awards, including awards from Dorothy Gillespie, May Stevens, Frank Webb and Daniel Greene. I have been in two group shows on Broadway and I am listed in the original Marquis’s Who’s Who of America, Who’s Who of American Women, and Who’s Who in the World. I have artwork in private collections in nineteen states, Washingon D.C.,Canada,Germany, and Australia. I taught in the Art Department at Radford University for twenty years. I am now a full-time professional artist. My work can be viewed at kendall-kessler.artistwebsites.com,
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